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http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/ieie.2017.54.5.74

Ground Penetrating Radar based Hand-held Landmine Detection System using Frequency Shifting Filtering  

Hahm, Jong-Hun (The School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST)
Kim, Min Ju (The School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST)
Heo, Eun Doo (The School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST)
Kim, Seong-Dae (The School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST)
Kim, Dong Hyun (Hanwha Systems)
Choi, Soon-Ho (Hanwha Systems)
Publication Information
Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers / v.54, no.5, 2017 , pp. 74-84 More about this Journal
Abstract
Since a soldier manages a hand-held landmine detector by hands, it is necessary to develop a system that can detect the target quickly and accurately. However, the hand-held landmine detector used in Korea has a problem that it can only detect the metal mines. Therefore, it is important to solve the problem and to develop a hand-held landmine detection system suitable for the Korean environment. In this paper, we propose a hand-held landmine detection system suitable for the Korean environment using ground penetrating radar. The proposed system uses depth compensation, matched filtering, and frequency shifting filtering for preprocessing. Then, in the detection step, the system detects the target using the edge ratio. In order to evaluate the proposed system, we buried landmines in sandy loam which is most of the soil in Korea and obtained a set of ground penetrating radar data by using a hand-held landmine detector. By using the obtained data, we carried out some experiments on the size and position of the patch and the shifting frequency to find the optimal parameter values and measured the detection performance using the optimized values. Experimental results show that the proposed preprocessing algorithms are suitable for detecting all landmines at low false alarm rate and the performance of the proposed system is superior to that of previous works.
Keywords
Landmine; Hand-held; GPR(Ground Penetrating Radar); Frequency Shifting;
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